Monday, September 14, 2015

When dear old mom ties you to a chair and smacks the living
hell out of you (and more) for days on end — as a child you quickly lose track
of time — it does tend to color your thinking.Especially, if you snap and kill her.

In director Joaquin Montalvan’s Hole, which is heading to
DVD on Nov. 24 courtesy of Wild Eye Releasing, we pick up the horrible young
life of Ed Kunkle (played by the late Paul E. Respass — Legend of the Hillbilly Butcher,
Mobius; with Gavin Graham as the younger Ed) after spending some time
in prison, who is now just scraping by as a janitor.He’s got this glazed, far-off look about him
… he clearly needs help.

When the voices kick in (and the flashbacks), you know it is
just a matter of time before all that repressed rage is going to manifest
itself.And boy does it.He kills mom again and again — young women,
who are themselves tied to chairs and then bludgeoned to death.Trophies are kept (you don’t want to know).

It appears that our boy Ed has only one friend in the world.
That would be Eve (Teem Lucas — Mobius),
his next-door neighbor, and those visits are both creepy (she too has issues)
and tension-filled (is Ed going to snap?).

The third member of this brutal horror tale is Detective
James (Jim Barile), who is beyond being burned out.He’s seen way too much and has become numb to
it all … the dark side calls him as well (if justice can’t be served, then he
will dish out some of his own).

Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Joaquin
Montalvan, a making-of documentary and a featurette titled “Ed’s Journal.”